Interested in Rotary and wondering how you can become involved in some way?
Becoming a Member of a Rotary club is a way you could choose to make a real difference. There are many benefits to Rotary membership:
1. Friendship
In an increasingly complex world, Rotary provides one of our basic needs: the need for friendship. It is one of the two reasons Rotary was founded in 1905.
2. Business Development
The second reason for Rotary’s origination was business development. Everyone needs to network. Rotary consists of a cross section of the business community, from all walks of life. Rotarians seek to help each other and collectively help others.
3. The Opportunity to Serve
Rotary is a service with the motto Service Above Self. Rotarians provide community service locally and internationally. This is perhaps the best reason for becoming a Rotarian: the chance to do something for somebody else and to experience the self-fulfilment that comes from the process. It is a richly rewarding activity.
4. The Development of Ethics
Rotarians practise a Four Way Test, a test that governs our ethical standards. Rotarians are expected to be ethical in business and personal relationships.
5. Personal Growth and Development
Membership of Rotary continues to provide opportunities for growth and education in human relations and personal development.
6. Fellowship
Every Rotary club and District has fellowship activities that provide a diversion from business life. Conferences, conventions and assemblies also provide good entertainment in addition to information, education and service.
7. Continuing Education
Each week at Rotary there is a program designed to keep members informed about community, national and world events. Guest speakers and timely topics are presented and discussed.
8. The People
Rotary is fun; the people make it an enjoyable experience! Many lifelong friendships have emanated from belonging to a Rotary club.
Of course the best way to find out more about Rotary is to visit a Rotary meeting and find out for yourself. You will be warmly welcomed whether you are interested in joining or if you simply would like to learn more about how Rotary works...
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Other ways to help are by donating goods or volunteer time to help Rotary projects.
Because it is family oriented, the Club arranges one meeting a month that is of special interest to members’ home partners. And at least once a year, Club members and partners enjoy a social week-end trip to a surprise venue. This ‘family spirit’ extends to the Club’s Rotary Rummage Shop where many members and partners spend a few hours regularly as helpers.
Community Programs
The Club is proud to have introduced to Manningham the life-saving Bowelscan program and Infotech, a three-day camp that introduces middle-level school students to a range of curriculum activities that extend classroom skills using advanced mapping technologies to address a range of social and environmental issues in the City of Manningham.
Wearing a Rotary pin makes you one in a million
- because that's how many friends you'll acquire worldwide when you join Rotary
ROTARY
is a network of business and professional decision-makers who work together on projects that benefit the young and disadvantaged and promote better understanding between people.
ROTARY
comprises more than one million service-minded men and women belonging to about 31,000 clubs in 163 countries.
ROTARY
helps the underprivileged, the ill and the disabled through thousands of projects ranging from community-focused efforts to major health programs such as worldwide eradication of polio and malaria.
ROTARY
each year fulfils the ambitions of some 9,000 secondary school students by arranging for them to live and study in countries other than their own. Other young students are selected to join the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program of seminars, conferences and leadership camps.
4 - Way Test
A Rotary Club encourages its members to apply this 4-way Test
to all aspects of their private and working life:
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
How does the Rotary Club of Manningham work in our Community?
The Rotary Club of Manningham’s 60 or so members meet on Monday evenings to enjoy each other’s company while listening to interesting speakers.
Working to the motto of
'Service above Self,'
they tackle a variety of challenging tasks and have plenty of fun along the way.
